This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.98 release. There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.

Responses should be made by Sun Mar 4 08:42:22 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/stable-review/patch-3.18.98-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-3.18.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 3.18.98-rc1

Yangbo Lu yangbo.lu@nxp.com net: gianfar_ptp: move set_fipers() to spinlock protecting area

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner marcelo.leitner@gmail.com sctp: make use of pre-calculated len

Ross Lagerwall ross.lagerwall@citrix.com xen/gntdev: Fix partial gntdev_mmap() cleanup

Ross Lagerwall ross.lagerwall@citrix.com xen/gntdev: Fix off-by-one error when unmapping with holes

Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com SolutionEngine771x: fix Ether platform data

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak

Eduardo Otubo otubo@redhat.com xen-netfront: enable device after manual module load

Xiongwei Song sxwjean@gmail.com drm/ttm: check the return value of kzalloc

Tushar Dave tushar.n.dave@oracle.com e1000: fix disabling already-disabled warning

Aliaksei Karaliou akaraliou.dev@gmail.com xfs: quota: check result of register_shrinker()

Aliaksei Karaliou akaraliou.dev@gmail.com xfs: quota: fix missed destroy of qi_tree_lock

Stefan Haberland sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/dasd: fix wrongly assigned configuration data

Matthieu CASTET matthieu.castet@parrot.com led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0

Guilherme G. Piccoli gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com bnx2x: Improve reliability in case of nested PCI errors

Siva Reddy Kallam siva.kallam@broadcom.com tg3: Enable PHY reset in MTU change path for 5720

Siva Reddy Kallam siva.kallam@broadcom.com tg3: Add workaround to restrict 5762 MRRS to 2048

Cathy Avery cavery@redhat.com scsi: storvsc: Fix scsi_cmd error assignments in storvsc_handle_error

Alexander Kochetkov al.kochet@gmail.com net: arc_emac: fix arc_emac_rx() error paths

Radu Pirea radu.pirea@microchip.com spi: atmel: fixed spin_lock usage inside atmel_spi_remove

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk sget(): handle failures of register_shrinker()

Brendan McGrath redmcg@redmandi.dyndns.org ipv6: icmp6: Allow icmp messages to be looped back

Sascha Hauer s.hauer@pengutronix.de mtd: nand: gpmi: Fix failure when a erased page has a bitflip at BBM

Anna-Maria Gleixner anna-maria@linutronix.de hrtimer: Ensure POSIX compliance (relative CLOCK_REALTIME hrtimers)

Jakub Sitnicki jkbs@redhat.com ipv6: Skip XFRM lookup if dst_entry in socket cache is valid

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/sh/boards/mach-se/770x/setup.c | 10 ++++- drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c | 2 + drivers/leds/led-core.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c | 6 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c | 53 ++++++++++++++---------- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c | 14 ++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 13 +++++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h | 4 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ptp.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000.h | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 27 +++++++++--- drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c | 6 ++- drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 1 + drivers/s390/block/dasd_3990_erp.c | 10 +++++ drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 3 +- drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c | 2 +- drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 8 ++-- fs/super.c | 6 ++- fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c | 46 +++++++++++++------- kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 7 +++- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 11 ++--- net/ipv6/route.c | 1 + net/sctp/socket.c | 16 ++++--- 25 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)